It's the end of an era in Ballymun as bulldozers moved in to demolish the prefabs of Gaelscoil Bhaile Munna.

The last government pledged to end the long-term use of prefabs for schools by 2021 under a new six-year school building programme, and parents and students of Gaelscoil Bhaile Munna have been waiting patiently ever since.

Friday was the pupils' last day in the prefabs they have become so used to for the last two decades.

Noeleen Reilly (Photo: Sinn Fein)

And this morning the bulldozers finally moved in to raze them to the ground to make way for a brand spanking new school.

Cllr Reilly added: "Children will be thought in the CDETB on Ballymun Road for the next year while the new school is being built."

"I look forward to the opening of the new school which will comprise of 12 classrooms, 19 on-site car parking spaces, 60 cycle spaces, newhard play areas, bin enclosure and 2 basketball courts, all to the side and rear of the new school building.”

Like hundreds of schools around the country, the gaelscoil started out with two prefabs in 1994 that were supposed to be temporary.

But that grew to six prefab buildings for the 180 pupils.

There’s no hall for school plays or gym lessons and the kids only have a small playground.

But now after years of delays, the issue has been resolved and building will get underway this summer.